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NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face, the open-model hub used by more than 18 million developers, for $12,930,300,000, and says the platform will stay open to other chips, clouds and model makers.

NVIDIA and Palantir pair custom Nemotron open models with Palantir's Ontology, Foundry and AIP to run NVIDIA's own supply chain, securing the 1.3 million parts in each Vera Rubin rack, and offer the stack to other industries.

ESMC marked its Dresden fab topping-out on September 14, 2026. Cleanroom installation and first tools remain planned for late 2027.

An open-source orchestration layer added to NVIDIA's CUDA-Q lets researchers model error-correction codes, algorithms and qubit hardware together; Fermilab cut fault-tolerant design work from five months to three weeks with it.

Jensen Huang told reporters at a summit with King Charles III in Scotland that he expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips next year as this year, citing AI demand in almost every country. Nvidia does not disclose total chip counts.

On 17 September 2026 Texas Instruments said it will lift its quarterly dividend from US$1.42 to US$1.52 a share (US$6.08 a year), payable 10 November 2026 to holders of record on 30 October 2026.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2026 ran 22-24 September in Maui under the theme 'Snapdragon for the Agentic Age', launching the 2 nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6, Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 and Linux support for Snapdragon X2 PCs.

Qualcomm unveiled two flagship phone chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026 - the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 - on a 2 nm process with 5 GHz Oryon cores, the X105 modem and Wi-Fi 8, for phones from Xiaomi, OnePlus, OPPO, vivo, Honor and Motorola.

Qualcomm agreed to acquire PickNik, the Boulder robotics software company behind the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework, promising to keep MoveIt open while tying it closely to Dragonwing robotics chips and Arduino boards.

Qualcomm launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 at Snapdragon Summit 2026, an audio-wearable platform with twice its predecessor's AI capability, micro-power Wi-Fi 6E for direct-to-cloud assistants and support for camera-equipped earbuds and audio glasses.

TSMC's 18th Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum brings chip designers, EDA and IP partners and customers to the Santa Clara Convention Center on 23 September, opening a global series that ends in Israel in December.

On 28 September 2026 AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence AI lab led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about US$8.2 billion. Li will become AMD executive vice president and chief scientist; closing is expected by the end of 2026.

The first stop of VMware Explore on Tour 2026 brings two days of sessions, Hands-on Labs and workshops from the Las Vegas show to Mumbai's Jio World Convention Centre on 29-30 September.

VMware Explore on Tour 2026 comes to the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore on 1-2 October, one of three stops that add days of partner training.

Satya Nadella, Pavan Davuluri and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang take the stage in San Francisco at 10 AM PT for Microsoft's first major Windows event in more than two years, billed as a conversation on "how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." Pricing and availability for the RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra are expected.

VMware Explore on Tour 2026 reaches Europe at Frankfurt's Kap Europa congress centre on 13-14 October, with a content catalog and extra partner-training days.

Apple confirmed its home-product rollout on October 13. HomeView ships November 13, while HomePod mini 2 ships October 30 and gains Siri AI in a later software update.

GlobalFoundries was selected to operate two new Malta, New York fabs under a U.S.–Japan initiative providing up to US$21 billion. Japan supplies the investment; GlobalFoundries supplies technology and operations. The first fab is expected online in 2029.

TSMC reports third-quarter 2026 results and gives its fourth-quarter outlook at its earnings conference on Thursday 15 October at 2 p.m. Taiwan time, against its own guidance of US$44.6-45.8 billion in revenue and a 65-67% gross margin.

VMware Explore on Tour 2026 holds its Japanese-language, invitation-only stop at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi on 20-21 October.

WD’s October 22 results show 55% year-on-year revenue growth, US$4.63 GAAP diluted EPS and US$4.64 adjusted EPS. Operating cash flow was US$1.604 billion and free cash flow US$1.377 billion; Q2 guidance remains a forecast.

Intel's Q3 2026 release says it released the Intel 14A 0.9 PDK in October. On the call Lip-Bu Tan said the 1.0 PDK should come by Q1 2027 and that multiple potential 14A customers are progressing but cannot yet be named. CFO Zinsner said 14A is being prepared for risk production in 2027 and production in 2028.

Microsoft's 2026 annual Windows feature update rolls out as a small enablement package (build 26300) for PCs on 24H2 and 25H2, resetting support to 24 months for Home and Pro and 36 months for Enterprise and Education.

On the first Power On podcast, 1 October 2026, Gurman said Apple will introduce its first touchscreen MacBook Pro this fall, "as early as October", possibly slipping to November.

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows Mixed Reality for consumers on 1 November 2026, ending downloads of the Mixed Reality Portal and WMR for SteamVR and all updates.

Qualcomm is expected to report fourth-quarter and full fiscal 2026 results, guided at $9.7-10.5 billion of revenue, the first report since its price increases took effect.

Apple's new home display arrives November 13 after October13 preorders. Tabletop and wall-mounted models start at USD299, with regional and paired-device restrictions.

VMware Explore on Tour 2026 comes to the ICC at Olympia in West Kensington, London, on 18-19 November, one of three stops with extra partner-training days.

HPE is expected to report fiscal Q4 and full-year 2026 results after the close, most likely on Thursday 3 December, having guided to $13.9-14.8 billion of quarterly revenue and $1.20-1.30 of non-GAAP EPS; HPE has not yet announced the date.

New to the tour in 2026, a one-day VMware Explore for the US public sector, state and local governments and contractors, at the Ronald Reagan Building on 8 December.

In his Power On newsletter Gurman said the MacBook Pro gets OLED and touch when next redesigned, "perhaps as soon as late 2026", with an OLED MacBook Air following in 2028.

Microsoft will retire its Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Guides mixed reality apps for HoloLens on 31 December 2026; renewals closed on 1 November 2025.

Bloomberg said on 24 February 2026 that Apple's 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros (K114, K116) get OLED touch screens and a Dynamic Island, slated for the end of 2026.

Huang expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips in 2027 as in 2026, the unit-growth projection behind the roughly 70% fiscal 2028 revenue guide.

Nvidia expects roughly 70% revenue growth during fiscal 2028, with chip supply constraining demand. The forecast covers the fiscal year beginning February 1, 2027 and ending January 30, 2028, rather than the August 2026 earnings call on which it was announced.

The 2026 VMware Explore on Tour season closes in Sydney on 3-4 March 2027 at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth on Phillip Street.

Intel's Nova Lake desktop chips, branded Core Ultra 400, are reported to launch from Q1 2027 on the new LGA-1954 socket, with a 52-core flagship following later in 2027.

Cisco's flagship customer and partner conference is set for 6-10 June 2027 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center; the 2026 edition in the same city drew more than 20,000 people.

Meta's $1,299.99 VR headset in the shape of glasses, about 100 grams on the face with a tethered compute puck and a 5K micro-OLED display, goes on sale in Spring 2027. It was code-named Project Phoenix and unveiled at Meta Connect 2026.

NVIDIA expects to complete its roughly $11.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face in the first half of 2027, once regulators approve the deal.

Reported, not announced by Intel: Razor Lake is expected in Q4 2027 with Griffin Cove P-cores and Golden Eagle E-cores, pin-to-pin compatible with Nova Lake's LGA 1954, followed by Titan Lake by the end of 2028 and E-core-only Moon Lake around 2028.

A16, TSMC's first node with Super Power Rail backside power delivery, is expected to reach volume production in 2027, a year after the 2026 production TSMC planned when it unveiled the node.

ESMC, TSMC's EUR 10 billion joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP, is due to start production at its Dresden fab by the end of 2027 - Europe's first FinFET-capable foundry, making 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips mainly for cars and industry.

JASM's second fab in Kikuyo, Kumamoto - switched from 6nm-class chips to TSMC's 3nm process - is due to start volume production in 2028 at 15,000 12-inch wafers a month, making Japan's first 3nm chips about a year after the end-2027 start TSMC first promised.

The third fab on TSMC's north Phoenix campus, where ground was broken in April 2025, is slated for its 2nm (N2) and A16 processes and targeted for volume production by the end of the decade - the most advanced chipmaking TSMC has committed to the United States.